Instructions:
Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat; cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring frequently, until butter browns and starts to foam. Remove from heat to cool.

In a medium mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and salt. In a large mixing bowl, using a mixer on medium speed, beat together melted browned butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until creamy - about 1-2 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Reduce mixer speed to low and gradually beat in flour until just combined; stir in chocolate chips and pecans until combined. Chill dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat cookie sheets with cooking spray.

Roll dough into balls (about 2 teaspoons per ball), place on cookie sheets, and flatten using the palms of your hands. Bake 8 minutes or until set and light golden. Cool on wire racks. Drizzle with melted caramel.

42 comments on "Mini Chocolate Chip Turtle Cookies"

hAVE jus copied this delightful recipe....they are so so so cute dear...u think if i bake 'em a little longer they'll crisp up?any may i ask u what chocolate chips u used?According to ya ,are compund chocolate chips or coverture chocolate chips the best for cookies?

wow moving in a new home is both hectic and exiting! I m passing through that phase too :) These cookies look incredible. Just the way I like them. not too thin and full of chocolate chips and pecans :)

Emily, if you are interested in a cool piece of art to cover the electric panel I love you send you one of my paintings, or make a new one for you! Just an idea! I love the gourmet food section at Marshalls! I always can't decide on what to buy, so I end up buying nothing except for those ginger people candies!

I love Marshall's, too, but we don't have one in my immediate area.:o(

I'm sure you already know this, but you can get some really awesome kitchen stuff at TJ Maxx. The name brand stuff. And I bought the cutest kitchen towels and dish cloths there after Christmas. Green, orange, mustardy yellow colored--I think they were Kitchen Aid.

Marshalls is my best friend. I do love their gourmet food section. I want to buy everything in it sometimes. I just feel guilty about the time I bought a cheap box of Guylian chocolates there as a Christmas thank-you gift and forgot to take off the Marshalls price tag that announced I had bought it from the Marshalls bargain bin. Oh well. Those shell-shaped chocolates with the hazelnut filling are darned good no matter how little you pay for them.

I think after you move in to your new place you'll discover a whole bunch of little things that you need (at least that's what happened to me). Things like a good flashlight, refrigerator magnets, those clips that keep potato chip bags closed, a paper towel holder, light bulbs....

I just recently discovered Marshall's and fell in love with it! (except for maybe their clothing section) I bought some cranberry orange pancake mix, german chocolate cookies and crazy shaped, multi-colored pasta, plus a bunch of other random stuff for so cheap. I might go there today now that you mentioned it!

I really want to make your mini cookies, but need to buy some mini chips first. I hope the store has them!

Yum! These look awesome! I'm bookmarking it to try them...gotta remember to get caramel tomorrow.

Most people would say 15 years is too old for a mattress but I'm sure that mine at my parents' is that old! If you like the way it feels and see yourself "needing" to buy a different one in the next couple of years (different size, etc) maybe wait.

So cute! I love turtles, they are so addicting. These cookies are so fun, and have a famous amos look that draws me in (except, I know these are better!) :). Fun times shopping... Marshalls is awesome, cheap baby clothes too!

Long time, no read. I am glad to be back reading blogs again and I really need to be better about updating my own. But that baby of mine is soooo cute, I just don't mind being a slacker.

As always, I love your posts. :)

So, my reason for commenting is 15 years is way too old for a mattress. Apparently on average each year a mattress absorbs 5 POUNDS of dead skin cells. Five per year. So 5 times 15 is 75 POUNDS of dead skin cells.

I didn't know this fact until after college. I was sleeping on a really, really, really old mattress topped with 2 egg crate mattresses because it was given to me by family and it was, well, free. So...at the risk of grossing you out and perhaps leading you to never read my blog again, I will admit the mattress was something like 30 years old. 30 times 5 is just so incredibly gross that I took many dollars from my nearly empty newly college graduate checking account a bought a new set. I felt much better afterwards and slept much better too.

10 years later, I am a married woman and my hubby and I just bought a bigger (king size- hurray!) set. There are GREAT deals out there and you by no means have to spend an arm and a leg. Let's face it, you need that money for baking/cooking gear- the really important stuff. :)

Holy cow, these sound (and look) delicious! I love turtles and the whole choc/pecan/caramel combo!So, as I'm reading your posts backwards, I get it, you're moving. Fun times. We're in the boat, too, sort of. Wait til you have a house to sell first and you have to clean up all of Erik's stuff first! Sigh. jkI've been leaving cookies for all the realtors and people coming to see our house and I'm going to try these cookies next.Did you just melt Krafty caramels, or did you add some cream to thin it out a little? Good luck with your move--just in the same town??